DevOps vs SRE: Differences & Similarities

DevOps vs SRE: Differences & Similarities

DevOps vs. SRE: Differences and Similarities DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) both aim to streamline development and operations. Because of their similar goals, some IT professionals consider SRE to be an extension of DevOps. However, they are distinct approaches between the two that need to be evaluated in order to define their working roles and responsibilities. This article compares DevOps and SRE so teams can choose which approach fits their team’s goals and culture,…

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Azure vs AWS Developer Tools

Azure vs AWS Developer Tools

Cloud computing has evolved to become the foundation for most organizations’ data, workload storage, and operations. Advancements in cloud technologies has been a critical driver of digital transformation, accelerating growth and productivity while reducing the operational costs of manual processes. This has enabled enterprises to scale easily without the headache of the physical addition of on-premises servers. There are several cloud vendors that organizations use to achieve this. The most dominant leaders are Amazon Web…

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Cloud Native: Virtual Patching 101

Cloud Native: Virtual Patching 101

As an enterprise’s online infrastructures become more complex — from their decentralization to the adoption of cloud, mobile, and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies — patch management has become an even more time-consuming and resource-intensive task. However, delaying or deferring the application of patches can be risky. Breaches could result in millions of dollars in financial losses, not to mention the hefty fines paid to authorities. Besides data breaches, there’s also the looming threat of ransomware and…

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source system that simplifies container orchestration through several built-in features. Without a tool like Kubernetes, it would be almost impossible to manually deploy and manage containers using command line on a large scale. How to manage Kubernetes Kubernetes requires high-level skills to deploy, configure, and manage a cluster. Many organizations lack the in-house resources needed to make the most of Kubernetes — and those that do have the resources…

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How to Build Your First Node.js gRPC API

How to Build Your First Node.js gRPC API

What is gRPC? Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a remote procedure call framework that eases the communication process between client and server applications. It’s high-performing, robust, and lightweight. These three qualities are due to its data exchange format and the interface definition language used by protocol buffers (protobufs). Protobufs are small and fast due to their data serialization format, which enables smaller packets. This makes them highly suitable for fast data flow and economical…

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Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities Workload Security AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365 – learn how to protect against their common vulnerabilities. By: Jiri Sykora, Sunil Bharti May 19, 2022 Read time:  ( words) What is AADInternals? AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365. As the name suggest it deals with…

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Virtual Machine vs Container

Virtual Machine vs Container

The difference between virtual machines and containers Virtual machines (VMs) and containers are as similar as they are different. They each have their own unique characteristics and use cases that separate them from each other. However, they are similar in that they can be used either together, or interchangeably, to enhance IT and DevOps efficiency. Great, all that sounds fine and dandy, but what are virtual machines and containers actually used for? I’m glad you…

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Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

The Challenge With a brand-new account, your initial configuration sets the tone. With existing accounts, the challenge is twofold. The first is the team working with that account will already be used to operating under the existing configuration. And since they’ve been doing it this way for a while and things are working, there’s no motivation to change. The second challenge is on the technical side. Can these guardrails be implemented without breaking anything inside…

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New AWS Competency Category – Why It’s Important

New AWS Competency Category – Why It’s Important

What is AWS DevOps Competency Partners? AWS DevOps Competency Partners are vendors vetted and selected by AWS that “have demonstrated expertise in delivering DevOps solutions on AWS.” According to AWS, these solutions include: software products to simplify provisioning and managing infrastructure, deploying application code, automating software release processes, monitoring application and infrastructure performance, and integrating security best practices, policies, and guardrails into CI/CD pipelines. Why it matters to DevOps teams DevSecOps is the newest category,…

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Cryptomining Overview for DevOps

Cryptomining Overview for DevOps

What is cryptomining? Malicious cryptomining or cryptocurrency-mining is when cybercriminals exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, weak credentials, or misconfigurations to enter systems and utilize its computer power to generate cryptocurrency. DevOps and cryptomining While ransomware seems to be the hot topic, cryptomining is still a cyberattack with dire consequences. Remember Apache Log4j (Log4Shell)—to be honest, who can forget? This critical vulnerability was mostly observed in the wild in cryptomining attacks. Think of the uptick in cryptomining like…

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